BROOKLYN’S GERARDO VALJEAN
by Gerard Sarnat
-- all thanks to Isak
Mousy man
back from head
peeked out hovely
house
1st post COVID
trip took to only open
local bodega where top
security
guard stares, stops,
accuses me being crook
stole single loaf of pain.
Stunned
we show you bag
containing our receipt --
they nada let us leave sans
guillotine.